Now, Verum Serum has flagged a “Fact Check“, from the Obama campaign itself, that also confirms President Barack Obama’s intent to eliminate private insurance coverage. The post is dated January 21, 2008, the height of Obama’s primary fight with Hillary Clinton, and begins:

Rhetoric: “Today, he opposes single payer health care, and attacks Sen. Clinton for proposing a plan that covers everyone”

Reality: Obama Has Consistently Said That If We Were Starting From Scratch, He Would Support A Single Payer System, But Now We Need To Build On The System We Have

Later in the post, the Obama campaign offers up this quote from Obama himself to demonstrate Obama’s true support for single payer health care:

If I were designing a system from scratch I would probably set up a single-payer system…But we’re not designing a system from scratch…And when we had a health care forum before I set up my health care plan here in Iowa there was a lot of resistance to a single-payer system. So what I believe is we should set up a series of choices….Over time it may be that we end up transitioning to such a system.

Approximately 103 million people would be covered under the new public plan and as a consequence about 83.4 million people would lose their private insurance. This would represent a 48.4 percent reduction in the number of people with private coverage.

About 88.1 million workers would see their current private, employer-sponsored health plan go away and would be shifted to the public plan.

Yearly premiums for the typical American with private coverage could go up by as much as $460 per privately insured person, as a result of increased cost-shifting stemming from a public plan modeled on Medicare.

So was Obama misinforming Democratic primary voters in 2008? Or is he misinforming the American people now?

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Anyone who stops, looks, and listens to all of the rhetoric being handed out concerning healthcare should be able to translate that all we are seeing from Washington is one persons ideology being crammed down our throats. What's the payoff in Washington??

Healthcare costs need to be controlled. I have seen that with health care, bills going through insurance costs are halved or close to it. The insurance is not paying these bills just mediating the cost on my behalf. Bills sent to me without insurance are and have been at least double.

"So was Obama misinforming Democratic primary voters in 2008? Or is he misinforming the American people now?"

Now, now… our illustrious president has asked us to refrain from engaging in "false choices" in these kinds of debates. As such, I feel compelled to mention that this is really a false choice. What it should have said is, "So is Obama just misinforming the American people now, or was he *also* misinforming the Democratic primary voters in 2008?"

Of course, one may quibble about the choice of words as well. I'm not sure why we settle on the rather bland and uninformative "misinforming" when really, "lying to" would better characterize the discussion. ;o)

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Not only does this "hogwash" article only create a mythical boogeyman from complete and utter lies…the very Group "The Lewin Group" that is the supposedly the credible source…has been linked to one of the major Private Insurance Companys-United Healthcare. That alone makes me question there objectives. And if that was enough they've claimed that they were not funded by insurance companys until someone exposed them. So, my basic point is that your "credible source" fabricates lies in the behest of business interest and not the interest of YOU or ME!

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